28 May 1897
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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1897
Page
1
A wagon voyage narrative follows a journey to Fort Sill with government workers stopping at a Wichita tavern and later a relay mule delay. At a prairie shanty a widow recalls her husband Jerud’s rheumatic deferment from the Civil War and decorates his grave with a hand stitched quilt from a tanned trunk, preserving memory amid frontier life.
The piece contrasts old time medical training with modern methods. It notes students were tied to a practicing physician, yielding few hands on experiences, with limited clinical rounds and lectures. It describes medieval colleges, narrow curricula, scarce labs, and the old path to the MD degree after years of rote study.
In Lewiston Journal style a marketman explains nav el oranges and Australian seedless navel trees. A curious observer asks how they are produced and the story shifts to a racially charged parable about creation, ending with a request for the Australian tree source.
Charles Goole a Black Hawk war veteran dies in Balmont Wisconsin at 103 his birth date marked the 103rd anniversary My Goode from Yorkshire England and Mrs William Coynor of Stafford Missouri died recently aged 100 mother of thirteen with over 400 descendants Mise Maria Ben non marks her 100th birthday in Windsor Connecticut daughter of a Revolutionary soldier noted among few. Salt luxury and meat of vegetables described as great in Central Allied lands causing long hardship and insanity symptoms among natives deprived of salt for long periods.
A waterspout struck the Brantley farmhouse near Monticello Tennessee demolishing the house. Five people including James Brantley’s wife, child, two farm hands, and a visitor were killed in the disaster. The fragment also mentions a figure of 6,274 professors in Europe’s colleges and universities, though its relation to the event is unclear.
In Washington May 17 18 Cuba dominates Senate action as a $50 000 relief appropriation for Americans in Cuba passes while Morgan's Cuban resolution sparks heated debate. House adjourns without action on belligerency. scenes of disorder erupt in Illinois amid protests on Cuban policy.
The 1895 German Empire records 873180 metal workers with 28443 women. Europe’s cities quadruple since 1881, while the US doubles. Budapest grows to 612000 in six years, and House of Commons restricts ladies at “at homes.” Scandinavia reports turf to coal method. aluminum hermita failures in the German army due to heat storage.
A historic advertisement touts Hostetters Stomach Bitters as a premier bilious remedy. It claims rapid relief from right side pains, shoulder blade ache, sick headache, nausea, constipation, and skin yellowness by restoring liver and digestive organ function.
In a brief, humorous exchange, one speaker notes more women around than previously believed. The other asks for clarification and replies that before marriage they thought the wife was the only woman in the world.
An ad touts a very cheap journey from Chicago to Nashville via the Big Four Route with a stop at Mammoth Cave. It invites readers to contact F.C. Tucker, G. NLA, or H. W. Sparks at 284 Clark Street in Chicago for full particulars.
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